So it seems to me that the main reason why "true Scrum has never been tried" is that most companies never intended to actually try it. They just wanted the buzzword.
Scrum is actually a cultural change. The methodology is just the surface stuff, like the buzzword.
It also doesn't actually happen at the company level, unless the company is quite small. It happens at the group level. I just thought of this: The Scrum that can be named, is not the true Scrum.
"Practicing" Scrum by following dictums in a book is sort of like practicing marriage by following dictums in a book. Those are just guidelines, and the reality is at a deeper level.
EDIT: Come to think of it, that can also be interpreted as: Therefore Scrum is broken as a methodology. It cannot be "followed" at scale. (Much as communism is broken as an economic system.)
Scrum is actually a cultural change. The methodology is just the surface stuff, like the buzzword.
It also doesn't actually happen at the company level, unless the company is quite small. It happens at the group level. I just thought of this: The Scrum that can be named, is not the true Scrum.
"Practicing" Scrum by following dictums in a book is sort of like practicing marriage by following dictums in a book. Those are just guidelines, and the reality is at a deeper level.
EDIT: Come to think of it, that can also be interpreted as: Therefore Scrum is broken as a methodology. It cannot be "followed" at scale. (Much as communism is broken as an economic system.)